It is the first commercial jet built mostly from carbon-plastic fibres rather than conventional aluminium and steel, making it more lightweight, and therefore, fuel-efficient.
With no need to pay dividends (state firms do not have to make any transfers to central government) and little shareholder pressure to ensure that their investment is cost-effective, Chinese firms went on a capital-spending binge, concentrated in industries such as aluminium, steel, car production and cement.
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There was even talk of mining old landfills to extract steel and aluminium cans.
Carbon fibre is replacing steel and aluminium in products ranging from aeroplanes to mountain bikes.
Composite is the most common form is carbon fibre and is gradually replacing steel and aluminium in industry.
Another author, Julian Allwood, from Cambridge University, has been studying the five most energy-intensive sectors: steel, aluminium, cement, plastics and paper.
With space-frames, car makers can clip extruded tubes or sections made of steel or aluminium on to a basic floorpan.
The city is completely powered by renewable energy sources such as solar, and the buildings are being constructed with recycled materials, including steel and aluminium.
People who make steel and aluminium and advertisers... and everyone who's involved in the larger economic impact of the auto industry believe it is working.
They grumble about his fetishistic use of steel, aluminium and glass.
To see that formula in action, I ride up the road to the town of Hanover, where Hypertherm Inc makes equipment used around the world to cut steel and aluminium.
Paul Cavey, an economist at Macquarie Securities, argues that the discrepancy is explained by the fact that energy-guzzling heavy industries, such as steel and aluminium, bore the brunt of the slowdown last year.
Replacing steel with aluminium allows additional interior space to be offered, along with larger crumple zones at the front and rear for even better crash protection, all without paying a heavy penalty in fuel consumption.
Then, in the second gallery, a new world of possibilities seems to be opening up, with some of Sir Anthony's earliest abstract sculptures from the 1960s, open-work forms in painted steel and aluminium, all resting on the ground.
GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.
Investments in steel, cars, aluminium and luxury housing are all subject to new regulations.
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There is ceramic in combination with steel, steel in combination with aluminium or bronze, and paper.
And truth be told, it seems people would rather have British made pizzas rather than British made steel or British made aluminium.
"The carbon fibre reinforced plastic parts are at least 30% lighter than aluminium and 50% lighter than steel for identical component use, so the vehicle weighs 300kg less than an ordinary vehicle, " Mr Bauman explains.
Though mid-sized by global standards, they have entered the consciousness of foreigners too, with takeovers abroad, from Novelis, an aluminium outfit, to Corus, a steel company.
Besides increasing banks' reserve requirements, the central bank and the government have also instructed banks to curb new lending to sectors which officials believe are growing too fast, namely steel, cars, cement, aluminium and property.
However, if all the parts made of iron and steel in cars today were replaced with aluminium, the vehicle would weigh 45% less.
An investment boom from 2001-04, for example, paved the way for the ballooning surplus of 2004-07, according to Jonathan Anderson, formerly of UBS. That investment poured into heavy industries, such as aluminium, machine tools, cement, chemicals and steel.
The battery support is also constructed from aluminium, the frame and oval piping is made from steel, while the seat is self-supporting.
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Thermite is a substance that can literally melt steel and is made up of iron oxide and aluminium.
If anything, cars with a high aluminium content have tended to be bigger and stronger than their steel-bodied predecessors.
Pound for pound, aluminium is up to two-and-a-half times stronger than conventional steel and can absorb twice the energy in a crash.
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